@Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 3 days agoFirefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing sessionlockwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down120file-textcross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1231arrow-down1external-linkFirefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing sessionlockwww.tomshardware.com@Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 3 days agomessage-square150fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
minus-squareAmbiguousPropslinkEnglish0•3 days agoTrue, but my understanding is that she wanted to save the pages how they were when she found them.
minus-square@shoki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 days agofirefox just remembers the url, or not? when my system crashes and firefox recovers my tabs it needs to load them all from their respective servers first, so it seems like it’s not “saving” the page on exit
minus-squareAmbiguousPropslinkEnglish1•3 days agoYeah, I’m talking about archivebox, not necessarily Firefox alone.
At that point, just use archivebox instead.
Self-hosted Archive.org? Neat
Or maybe her browser history
True, but my understanding is that she wanted to save the pages how they were when she found them.
firefox just remembers the url, or not? when my system crashes and firefox recovers my tabs it needs to load them all from their respective servers first, so it seems like it’s not “saving” the page on exit
Yeah, I’m talking about archivebox, not necessarily Firefox alone.